Google’s Pet Portraits helps you to discover artwork look-alikes on your furry good friend

Google has announced an exciting new feature for its Arts and Culture app: the flexibility to look via 1000’s of work to discover a look-alike on your pet. The firm says its “Pet Portraits” characteristic will allow you to take an image of a canine, cat, fish, chook, reptile, horse, or rabbit, and have a machine studying algorithm discover items of artwork that characteristic a similar-looking animal. The course of solely takes a number of seconds, and as a bonus you’ll be capable to faucet on the items of art work to be taught extra about them. You may even save a video slideshow of your outcomes.

I attempted out Pet Portraits on my cat, Aslan, and the outcomes have been combined — whereas the app was in a position to generate an exquisite (okay, principally tan) colour palette primarily based on his fur, many of the artwork doppelgängers (as Google places it) didn’t find yourself trying very like him in any respect.

It additionally missed the most obvious look-alike for my boy (although in its protection I don’t assume Google is aware of my cat’s title).

The instrument additionally helps you to add photographs as an alternative of utilizing the reside digicam, which is nice information in case your pet is a bit photo-shy or if you wish to experiment with completely different angles. You also can attempt it out along with your co-worker’s pets — maybe use the outcomes to make enjoyable of them within the replies to their fourth puppy tweet this week?

Puppy image: Tom Warren

While I didn’t get nice outcomes, it’s nonetheless numerous enjoyable to mess around with. Plus, you’re like me and don’t get to see what your pet would appear like painted by Monet or da Vinci, the app additionally has a filter that allows you to apply a well-known artist’s fashion to your photos.

If you need to attempt it out by yourself pet, you may obtain the Google Arts and Culture app on the App Store or the Play Store. The app additionally has a characteristic the place you may evaluate an image of your self to portraits — maybe, if the celebrities align, you should utilize the options in conjunction to discover a piece of art work that options look-alikes of you and your pet.